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- 28 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants
only treatments are maintenance dialysis and kidney transplantation. The former requires visits to a treatment center for at least 12 hours a week, while a transplant—from either a living family member or a matching deceased donor—can... View Details
- 14 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing
challenges facing people with ASD: When his son was about three years old, the boy’s development of speech and social skills seemed delayed. The Sonnes reached out to pedagogues and psychologists in an attempt to understand what was... View Details
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
number of competitors increases. Greater rivalry reduces the incentives of all competitors in a contest to exert effort and make investments. At the same time, adding competitors increases the likelihood that at least one competitor will... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
made by its Board of Executive Directors. However, in any given year the majority of the Bank's member countries do not get a chance to serve on this powerful body. In this paper, we empirically investigate whether board membership leads... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Susan Wilner Golden (PMD 59, 1990) had a very frustrating experience caring for her aging mother. With her background as a graduate of the HBS Program for Management... View Details
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
and residences with proximity at least as convenient as current bus stops, and a quality of service far above what buses can offer. Right now, the field is wide open. Companies with existing transit experience are certainly watching PRT.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Net Gains
incredible," he says. He points to China as a prime example of the league's international potential realized. Thanks to a decades-long campaign, the country is now the NBA's largest international market, with more than 100 employees, wide... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
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Product Management - Course Catalog
executive, this course aims to provide an introduction to product management and expose students to key product development and growth strategies so they can build, optimize and scale products following graduation. Product examples cover... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
formulation. The interviews also revealed that compensation committees face a number of pressures to keep top executives' pay at a certain level. Not the least of these, says Lorsch, are surveys performed by compensation consultants.... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Five Degrees of Doriot
realized a decades-long dream of developing a graduate-level business education program in Europe when he founded INSEAD in 1957 with the help of former students Olivier Giscard d’Estaing (MBA 1951) and Claude Janssen (MBA 1955). Today,... View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
stabilize prices, develop a plan to rationalize capacity, and so on. The mentality was that all companies should share equally in the pain; then no one will get hurt too badly. Of course, this approach leads to a perpetually uncompetitive... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Beacon of Liberty
me as an immigrant the same opportunities it did to its own citizens. Today, that is still largely the case, unless your name is Mohammad or if you choose to wear the hijab. Since 9/11, almost every Muslim in this country has a story. And... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
outside the United States view us, they look at organizations like Boeing, DuPont, GE, Johnson & Johnson, and Procter & Gamble as gold standard companies. We tend to lament that manufacturing is going down, but outside our country they... View Details
- 28 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance
What fuels a global economy? Certainly the easy flow of capital across national boundaries would seem near the top of the list. But financial globalization is not an on/off switch, notes Professor Rawi Abdelal. Different countries and... View Details
Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal
- 17 May 2018
- Blog Post
HBS/HKS Alum Regan Turner on Empowering Veterans
About the HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program The HBS/HKS joint degree programs serve a growing need of critical importance to global society: their mission is to develop leaders, skilled in management and the shaping of innovative public... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
“This isn’t only about giving money. We are planting seeds to increase diversity in recruiting, hiring, and professional development in meaningful and measurable ways. “We want companies to start recognizing that diversity is an advantage... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
time. Optimal Deterrence When Judgment-Proof Agents Are Paid in Arrears—With an Application to Online Advertising Fraud Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Abstract I develop a screening model with delayed payments and probabilistic delayed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Market Research Meets the “People Factor”
used? According to HBS professors Gerald Zaltman and Rohit Deshpandé, the "people factor" behind market knowledge and its transfer is at least as important as the straightforward information the research conveys about a product... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2024
- Research & Ideas
AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen
It's an AI-age twist on the classic Turing Test, developed by British computer scientist Alan Turing in 1950 to judge whether machines could exhibit “intelligence.” Called the “Wade Test,” after the CEO of the company the researchers... View Details
- 16 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters
positions might develop more centralized networks just as a function of the jobs they have. Two, employees who already have larger networks might be tapped for corporate staff jobs because of their networks. Three, employees who don't... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding